Reply #22: Three Things. [View All]

[Deep N RedLand]

1. Yes, we are being ignored (as usual) by the MSM. While I don't expect this event to equal hurricane reporting, even a brief mention should be in order on every outlet, though it seems for the most part the crickets are chirping. The fact is the hurricanes are just a convenient excuse for the MSM. Do you really think if it wasn't for it, they'd be giving us any more coverage? It would be something else, like missing middle-class white people that would be reporting on instead.

2. What others (or you) may consider whining, I call letting our voice be heard and expecting being at least to be allowed that voice in the media, even if they rather not present it.

3. I heard the question raised over the last few days over the timing and how the critics would blast us for having these events while the gulf is being hit, even though the demonstrations were planned months before Katrina and Rita and logistically it would have been very difficult to change everything at the last minute. Though knowing how the RW attack machine is, while I have no doubt they will use this against us, it's dismaying some of us here are helping them along.